The effect of oil on my attacking troops has varied from siege to seige. Upon ordering my army to enter a city sometimes my units will take up a very narrow column formation, perhaps 3 to 4 units across for infantry or 2 to 3 for cavalry. In this formation they will suffer much lower oil casualties (~10%) then when in a wider formation as the oil tends to burn soldiers on the sides of the column, hence the wider the column the more casualties. I really cannot say what makes them take up this narrower formation but it can allow seige battles to be waged in a less time-consuming and bloody (oily?) fashion.

In other news, greetings to all on my first post here. This is a top notch resource.

The Bloe that is Joe